Planning: Beyond Ice

由于气候变化，北极的变暖速度是其他任何地区的四倍，但这种变暖的影响在该地区的当地社区之外并不为人所知。阿拉斯加太平洋大学（APU）将组织一个为期一年的计划项目，进一步发展与阿拉斯加育空河沿岸的四个土著社区的关系，这些社区正遭受气候危机对环境和社会的影响。Beyond Ice项目旨在通过分享他们的韧性故事，在急剧变化的条件下生活的挑战以及通过这种转变对未来的展望，扩大育空地区当地社区的声音。新出现的知识合作生产模式是Beyond Ice项目各个部分的支点；从项目设计到实施和评估。合作伙伴包括鹰村、努拉托村、俄罗斯使团村和努纳姆伊夸村，这些村庄横跨阿拉斯加的中心地带，从内陆到白令海。有了这笔规划拨款，土著社区成员、艺术家、科学家、博物馆和评估人员将制定计划，共同产生具体成果，设想：(1)基于当地和土著观点的互动社区艺术展览；(2)安克雷奇博物馆北方视角节的教育艺术体验；(3)以k -成人课程为特色的STEM教育项目。规划过程将建立必要的伙伴关系，以设计和实施以公平和包容为基础的可行的合作生产模式。该计划拨款将支持通过摄影、声音、视频和纪录片等方式，发展以故事为目标的有形框架，以便以多种方式了解、审视、支持和赋权于多个社区成员、老年人，尤其是年轻人。土著社区、科学家和博物馆之间合作的目标是迅速传播正在进行的研究，并强调共同生产知识，以便更有效地向公众传播这一宝贵的工作。Beyond Ice最终将为育空地区北极原住民社区提供一个平台，让他们在国界之外分享原住民的观点。Beyond Ice的包容性进程支持多个社区成员、老年人和年轻人，使每个人都能参与到知识的共同生产中来，突出土著对北极变化的观察。该奖项由地球科学理事会极地项目办公室和STEM教育理事会推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）项目共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Arctic is warming four times faster as a result of climate change than any other region, but the impacts of this warming are not well known beyond the local communities in the region. The Alaska Pacific University (APU) will organize a one-year planning project to further develop relationships with four Indigenous communities along the Alaskan Yukon River who are experiencing environmental and social impacts from the climate crisis. The Beyond Ice project aims to amplify the local community voices along the reach of the Yukon by sharing their stories of resilience, challenges of living in drastically changing conditions and visioning of a future through this transition. The emerging paradigm of knowledge co-production is the fulcrum for all parts of Beyond Ice; from project design to implementation and evaluation. The partnerships involve the villages of Eagle, Nulato, Russian Mission, and Nunam Iqua which span the heart of Alaska from the interior to the Bering Sea. With this planning grant, Indigenous community members, artists, scientists, museums, and evaluators will develop plans to co-produce concrete outcomes, envisioning: (1) interactive community art exhibits based on local and Indigenous perspectives (2) educational art experiences at Anchorage Museum’s Northern Perspectives Festival, and (3) a STEM education program featuring K-Adult curricula. The planning process will build critical partnerships required to design and implement a viable co-production model rooted in equity and inclusion. This planning grant will support development of tangible frameworks aimed at stories through photography, sound, video, and documentary methods in order to engage in multiple ways of knowing and to examine, support, and empower multiple community members, elders, and especially young people. The goal of collaborations between Indigenous communities, scientists and museums is to provide rapid dissemination of ongoing research studies and highlight the co-production of knowledge for more effectively communicating this invaluable work to the public. Beyond Ice will ultimately provide Yukon Arctic Indigenous communities with a platform to share Indigenous perspectives beyond their borders. Beyond Ice’s inclusive process supports multiple community members, elders, and young people, empowering each to engage in the co-production of knowledge highlighting Indigenous observation of the changing Arctic. This award is co-funded by the Office of Polar Programs in the Directorate of Geosciences and the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program in the Directorate for STEM Education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.